Day 6
Did I mention that our new room at CBR had some interesting artifacts from some previous occupants? We opened the drawer to the night stand and found an empty bag from Sosa Family Cigars at Downtown Disney and the outside wrapper from a package of birth control pills. Good times! Its nice to know people were having fun in our room before we arrived!
Oh yeah, speaking of Mousekeeping, we never got any towel animals the whole trip, which would upset DD every night when we got back to the room. I was leaving $2-3 tips on the bed every morning before we left. I guess its just hit or miss on whether the person who cleans your room knows how to make towel animals or has time? Seems like we had towel animals every day when we stayed at WL in January. I thought maybe it was just something at CSR, but when we switched to CBR, still no animals.
OK, on with Day 6. So we got up at probably 8:30 a.m, or so. DW and I joked that, Oh no, its 8:30 and were still in our room. The pressures that the grandparents brought were gone and it was nice to be relaxed and take our time. It was supposed to be a vacation, and weve got young kids. Whats the rush? BTW Im sure some of you are morning people and I assure you we have nothing against you Just differences in style.
I got dressed and took the van down to Old Port Royale to pick up some Danishes and coffee (I know, I know
call me breakfast boy!)
DW had wanted to do some laundry since wed been there a week. And conveniently, the laundry room was next to the quiet pool (we could also see the pool from our balcony) in Trinidad. So we took the laundry over and got it started and then the whole family went for a swim. It was probably 10:15 when we got in the pool. We played in the pool for maybe an hour while the clothes washed, then moved everything to the dryers and headed back to the room to shower and get ready for the MK.
Like I said at the beginning, DW, her mother and sister had done planning for this trip several months in advance. They had ADRs set up for almost every day we were there. But after the incident, of course, all of those plans were down the drain.
I talked to the folks at the concierge desk after we settled in at CBR on Day 5, and with it being Labor Day weekend, good reservations were hard to come by. Nothing was open for the Chef Mickeys character breakfast on Day 7 and Ohana only had dinner reservations for 9:15 p.m. and after on Day 7 (that was the two places DW and I decided we wanted to go).
We were able to get a 2:15 lunch for the Crystal Palace at the MK on Day 6. Weve done the Crystal Palace thing with the Pooh characters all three times weve been with the kids. DW really likes it a lot, and who doesnt like to hang out with Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet? We ended up taking the late reservations at Ohana for Day 7 (good decision) and got reservations at Chef Mickeys for Day 8 (Tuesday, the day we drove home).
Back to Day 6 (Sunday) -- We got over to the MK at about 12:30 p.m. We headed for Adventureland and got fastpasses for the Jungle Cruise. We went in the Tiki Room while we waited on our fastpass times. DW says she doesnt like the Tiki Room as much now that its under new management. The Jungle Cruise was fun; the dumb jokes the drivers tell always amuse me. One guy booed our driver and the driver said: Who booed me? Sir, thats not nice. I dont boo you when youre flipping burgers at McDonalds. Funny stuff.
After the Jungle Cruise, it was time for the Crystal Palace reservations. We saw Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore shortly after we were seated. Pooh was on the other side of the restaurant, however, and when the 3 p.m. parade started, of course, he had to leave to attend to his parade duties. When the parade was over, the characters started around again and our kids got to see Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore a second time before Pooh made it to our table. Pooh seemed to be in a bigger hurry than his friends that day, but we got some cute pictures of the rest of the characters with our kids.
After Crystal Palace, we went up to a CM (Elizabeth) standing at the information center on Main Street. DW chatted it up with her about why Pirates of the Caribbean wasnt a fastpass ride. Pirates was about a 30-minute wait that day and our kids are good for about 10 minutes before they start getting restless. Elizabeth didnt know, but did give us a special coupon-thingy that was effectively a fastpass that would work at any time on any ride in the park that offered a fastpass. It was really nice of her to do that. After that, we went back to Pirates and got in the line. It moved pretty quickly and theres enough pirate stuff in the queue to keep the kids at least somewhat distracted. DW and I really like the way the Pirates ride has been re-done to fit with the movies and we had a lot of fun on the ride. DD was a little scared at the hill you go down in complete darkness, but DW held her hand.
After Pirates, the kids got to meet the characters from Aladdin near his ride. We had never met them before. After that, we headed for Fantasyland and picked up a fastpass for the Pooh ride. We were planning on using our special fastpass on the Peter Pan Ride at that point, but the standby time was 50 minutes and the fastpass line was pretty long. DD and I went on the Tea Cup ride while we waited on the Pooh fastpass and then grabbed a snack. While we were in line for our snack, we saw Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and went to see them next. We have never seen them before, so I thought it was pretty cool. We had a family picture made and DD got their autographs.
After the Tweedle encounter, we rode Pooh and then went back to Peter Pan and used our special fastpass. At that point, it was maybe 7 p.m. and we started looking for some dinner. DW thought it would be cool to eat at the Plaza on Main Street. We got sidetracked by an artists stand and by then it was pouring down rain. We had a silhouette done of both the kids together and then headed toward where DW thought the Plaza was. We ended up in the customer service office near the entrance, first getting our Extra Magic Hour bracelets and then looking into table service dinner reservations. Everything was booked and it was still raining.
We decided to get on the train and take a break. We ended up riding the train around a full trip and then halfway back to Frontierland. DS dirtied his diper while we were on the train, making it a stinky ride for all of us. Despite his stink, DS still had enough courage to flirt with the girls behind us! We got off at Frontierland and worked our way over to Pecos Bill Cafe for dinner.
After dinner, it was back to Fantasyland. We rode the Snow White ride and then got in line for Dumbo. The lady in line behind us at Dumbo was nice. She was a grandma there with her grandson late at night (9 p.m.)
. Her grandsons name was Ethan, same as our DS. DW and I talked afterward about how they were doing the grandparent/grandkid thing at WDW like it was supposed to be done.
After Dumbo, we started trying to find a place to watch Wishes. A CM in one of the shops told us she always recommended the bridge near Cosmic Rays to the right of the castle. A lot of people were hovering around there, so we staked out a place on a bench on the bridge (a nice couple moved over so all four of us could sit down).
When Wishes started, we got a good view of Tinker Bells flight. We had never gotten to see Tinker Bell up close. However, once the fireworks started, we couldnt see them very well because of all of the trees. We moved a little to get a better view, but still couldnt really see all of the fireworks.
After Wishes, we went into Cosmic Rays; DW wanted me to take a picture of Ray doing his lounge act. Then we went toward Tomorrowland, figuring we could get on Buzz Lightyear really fast. That didnt work out, though, as the line was really long. So we headed back to CBR at about 10:30 p.m.
The bus was full on the way back to the resort. DS was sleeping in DWs arms, so someone got up and gave her their seat. DD sat with a nice family a few seats back (the man gave up his seat) and I stood in front of DW and DS. Across from us, a lady held a screaming toddler. The toddler cried the whole way back. I think we all felt sorry for the family and admired the moms patience. Weve all been there in that situation. Just glad it wasnt one of our kids that night!
to your wife. I can't imagine her pain when he said those things to her. Good for both of you to stick up for your daughter and remove yourselves from that abuse. What a sad man, because in the end he is the one who loses.
) Actually, I wonder if GF hadn't built a case against you in his mind, and used your refusal to eat the fruit as proof that you were being difficult. They seem to have let their ill feelings build up to the point of the totally unnecessary explosion. It's a shame.
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Great line and definitely true.
